Senior Quality Assurance Technician
Kawartha Dairy Ltd
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Bobcaygeon • 🇨🇦 Canada
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Senior
About the role
- Conduct standardized tests on food and beverages to ensure compliance to standards
- Factors considered are microbiological, physical, and chemical composition
- Products included in testing are fluid milk and creams, soft serve ice cream mix, yoghurt mix, frozen desserts, and incoming ingredients.
- Evaluate retained product samples on organoleptic properties to verify shelf life
- Taste or smell food and or beverages to ensure flavor meets specifications
- Taste or smell food and or beverages to ensure specific characteristics on select samples
- Microbiological testing as required
- Provide ongoing monitoring of production processes
- Monitor quality considerations for processes involved in both fluid production and ice cream production
- Liaise regularly and maintain working relationships with various on-site groups (e.g. production personnel)
- Assists the QA Supervisor/Manager with supporting the facility’s HACCP Program to meet corporate food safety strategy and quality standards
- Provides recommendations to improve the facility’s quality system based on analysis of data relative to food safety and quality performance
- Promotes a quality culture among all personnel.
- Provides HACCP, GMP and other training as per company quality manual to all personnel.
- Interpret test results and document or record information
- Enter, transcribe, record, store or maintain information in hard copy or electronic means
- Record and compile test results and prepare graphs, charts, and reports
- Assists Quality Supervisor/Manager with developing the company’s quality assurance procedures and writing SOPs
- Environmental Monitoring
- Microbiological testing
- Walk through inspections
Requirements
- Must be able to work Monday to Friday 10:00pm - 6:00am
- University Degree in Science (Food Science Preferred) or Diploma, Food and Pharmaceutical Technology or related discipline
- A minimum of 2 years lab experience in the food and beverage industry and with GMP and HACCP Programs
- Knowledge of quality assurance audits
- Knowledge of quality improvement testing
- Must be capable of working evening and weekends in response to production times and business needs as applicable
Benefits
- Competitive salary
- Relocation allowance
- Annual performance bonus
- Company paid health, vision & dental benefits
- Sick pay
- Employee Assistance Program
- RRSP/DPSP matching
- Uniforms Provided
- Opportunities for training & advancement
- Discount on products sold in our retail stores
- Free daily dairy beverages provided in all our company fridges
- Active social committee
- FREE ICE CREAM
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
microbiological testingquality assuranceGMPHACCPfood safetyquality improvement testingdata analysisSOP writingenvironmental monitoringorganoleptic evaluation
Soft skills
communicationteamworkrelationship managementproblem-solvingattention to detailorganizational skillsadaptabilityrecommendation skillsquality culture promotionmonitoring
Certifications
University Degree in ScienceDiploma in Food TechnologyHACCP certificationGMP certification